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A thousand stars, a thousand roses, only one wish she said as she danced across the heavens and laughed while casting her radiance and fragrance over me.
"Only you will have stars that can laugh."
"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers."
This is my first official experiment with astral photography. I look forward to capturing the stars in a better "light" and clarity. The quotes are taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince."
In the upper left hand corner is the Trifid Nebula. May she laugh for you.
Happy Friday Flickr Friends! I hope each of you have a fabulous weekend and may you all learn to look with your heart to find your single rose.
DESCRIPTION: Very nice target for smaller telescopes and camera lenses. I am surprised of data quality because I was shooting during astronomical twilight and nebulae were only approx 15° above south light polluted horizon… All comments are welcome, you can be critique and please constructive.
OBJECT: M 8 The Lagoon Nebula, M 20 The Trifid Nebula, Constelation Sagittarius, M8 apparent magnitude 6, apparent dimension 90’ x 40’, M20 apparent magnitude 6,3, apparent dimension 28’ x 28’, FOV 2,7° x 1,8°.
GEAR: Nikon Z7 Kolari Full Spectrum + Nikkor 500/5,6 PF, Astronomic UV/IR/L2 Clip in filter, Rollei Astroklar light pollution filter, Dew heater strip, sensor pixel scale 1,79 arcsec/px, tracking mount iOptron CEM60EC - 3 star alignment, no auto guiding.
ACQUISITION: July 3-4, 2021, Struz, CZ, Subexposure 180s, f 5,6, ISO 640, Interval 15 s, RAW-M, Light 19x, Dark 20x, Bias 20x, Flat 20x, DarkFlats 10x. Total exposure time 57 min. Astronomical twilight, no wind, 9°C, No Moon, Light polluted backyard - Bortle 5.
STACKING AND POST PROCESSING: AstroPixelProcessor (stacking, background neutralization, light pollution removal, calibrate background) , Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 ( black and white point settings, stretching, dim stars, enhance DSO, contrast setting, no noise reduction). Cropped 2,3x x, image size 3840 x 2560 px.
Total exposure time 93 minutes.
Unmodified Nikon D810 W/Nikon 500mm F4 @ f5.6.
Cropped to approximately 2/3 of original frame.
s always an incredible sight. It's clearly divided into 3 lobes (which is what "trifid" means) and features multiple objects of interest. The reddish / magenta areas are an emission nebula, the blue areas are reflection nebula, and the dark areas that trifurcate the nebula are dark nebula. These dark nebulae give the Trifid its distinct look. On top of that, an open cluster lives within its gassy form.
Combing through some older data that I didn't feel I did justice to the first time around. This is quite a difference from the original photo processed nearly 4 years ago.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Celestron CGX (guided)
ZWO ASI 1600MC Pro camera
Autoguider: Orion Mini Guide Scope + SSAG
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
30 x 2 min exposures
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the L&A County Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, ON..
240 light frames + 20 dark frames + 20 bias frames, taken on 14.07.2018.
EXIF: IR modified Canon 550D, Tamron 600 mm f/6.3, iso 6.4k, 25'' on an iOptron Skytracker. Stacked on DSS. Processed in Photoshop.
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Messier 20, Barnard 85
Emission, reflection and dark nebulae in the constellation of Sagittarius.
Magnitude: +6.3.
Apparent size: 29′ x 27′ (about Moon size).
Diameter: 44 light years.
Distance: 5,200 light years.
Image date: 7th September 2020.
Exposure: 121 x 90 sec = 3 hour exposure.
Field of View: 47.7 x 31.7 arcmin.
Imaged with my ZWO ASI071 camera on Skywatcher Esprit 120 telescope, this time with a Televue 2X Powermate.
M20 The Trifid Nebula is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. Its name means three-lobe Shot with Canon 60d unmodified and Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4.My 1st real go with a guide scope and autoguiding. 17 x 180 sec shots at 800 ISO.
Another go at processing all the images I got last week, here is Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae . So many ways to process these astro shots that all give such varied results .
This is a wide-field image of Lagoon (M8) & Trifid nebulae (M20) in Sagittarius constellation. These nebulae are both star nurseries. The Lagoon nebula is emission nebula mainly composed of Hydrogen gas. The black focal spots in the nebula are protostar collapsing dust clouds called Bok globules. The nebula is brightened by two giant stars in the centre and the open star cluster NGC 6530 above it. In the other side, the Trifid nebula which is composed of Red emission nebula & Blue reflection nebula. It’s called trifid because the dark dust lanes are separating the nebula into three lobes. Its about 5,200 light years distance. Gear setup: WO Redcat51 f/4.9, Optolong L-Pro, ZWO ASI 2600 MC, iOptron Sky Guider Pro unguided, ASIair. Acquisition 20 x 180 sec subs, 20 Darks, 50 Bias. Total one hour integration. Processed by DSS, PS and Topaz Denoise AI. Little cropped from sky Bortle 4.
Northfield, OH
July 26 & Sep 2, 2024
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED 80, field flattener (no reducer), 480mm focal length
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
Guide scope: Williams Optics 50mm guide scope
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
Software: NINA, PHD2
Imaging--
Lights: 37x300s
Darks, Flats, DarkFlats, Bias: assorted
Sensor temp: -10.0
Filter: Optolong L-Extreme
Sky: Bortle 6 (nominal)
Post processing--
Software: PixInsight, Photoshop
Trifid Nebula or M20 . 20mins of data taken with QHY 183CPro and Sky watcher Quattro 250P Scope .The Trifid Nebula is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm.
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using an SBIG STL-11K camera and Takahashi BRC 250 telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.
L=Ha/IR R=IR>850 nm G=IR 800-900 nm B=IR 700-800 nm.
One hour each filter.
Seen in the constellation Sagittarius, the Lagoon Nebula, and Trifid Nebula shine even against the brilliance of the Milky Way bands they are near. The Lagoon Nebula was discovered before 1654, and later the Trifid Nebula was first observed in 1764. They both are ~5,000 light-years away from us here on Earth. They are both easily observed with the naked eye from dark areas, a pair of binoculars or telescope really brings out the details though!
Shot from my back yard near Taos, New Mexico.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikon 500mm f/4 P AI-s - shot at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
26 x 136" for 58 min and 56 sec of exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Software:
SharpCap
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
PHD2
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I then mounted my a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 P AI-s lens to the top rail of my scope. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 1600, f/5.6 and 135" exposures. I stacked lights/darks/flats/bias frames in deepskystacker. I then processed the TIFF file in photoshop stretching the file, minimal cropping and I used Astronomy Tools Action Set to help bring out details and colors.
The Lagoon (M8) and Trifid (M20) nebulae in Sagittarius are seen in this image made of 29 twenty second exposures taken with a full spectrum modified Canon 70D and a Canon 50 mm f/1.4 lens. (f/4.0, ISO 3200)
Lagoon Nebula M8 area with Trifid Nebula M20 captured under a Bortle 1 sky at Teide National Park, Tenerife.
Scope: Lacerta APO 72/432
Mount: IOptron SkyGuiderPro
RGB frames:
Fuji X-T3, 65x 1 min. @ ISO 3.200
Ha + OIII:
Nikon D5500 astro modified
68x 2 min. @ ISO 3.200
Optolong L-Enhance dual narrowband filter
Colors blended in SIRIL to simulate the "Hubble palette".
Messier 20 a.k.a Trifid Nebula
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Discovered in the 18th century by Charles Messier, the Trifid Nebula has an apparent diameter of about 25 light years, is located a little over 4000 light years from Earth, and can be observed in the Centaurus Arm of the Milky Way, at the edge of the constellation Sagittarius.
What is special about this deep sky object is that M20 is a combination of an open cluster (in the middle of the red area), an emission nebula (red area), a reflection nebula (blue area) and a dark nebula (those gaps in the star field). Unfortunately, this dark nebula does not stand out very well in the attached image because I had less than 3 hours of “photon collection”.
Equipment and settings:
Mount: SW EQ6R
Telescope: Explore Scientific 102ED + 0.75 APM flattener/reducer
Camera: ASI 533MM Pro
Filters : LRGB Astrodon
Total integration: 2h47’ ( R – 12x3min, B – 15x3min, G – 12x3min, L – 25x2min )
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 3-4.
What is the origin of light?
The physicist will probably tell you that it is a photon emitted by matter in an excited state.
The astronomer will certainly agree with that, but might add that such excited matter can be found in stars, which are fueled by nuclear reactions or in gas clouds that are energized by electromagnetic radiation.
The chemist will also agree with the physicist, but will add that matter can also be excited by a chemical reaction, thus leading to chemoluminescence.
The biologist might bring another aspect into the discussion: Such chemical reactions can take place inside living organisms, leading to bioluminescence and that the most frequently encountered bioluminescent organisms may be the dinoflagellates present in the surface layers of the sea, which are responsible for the sparkling phosphorescence sometimes seen at night in disturbed water.
Finally, the astrophotographer might agree with all of the above and, if he is lucky enough, he will be able to show you an image where a sky, filled with billions of stars and a few colorful emission nebulas, is riding above a remote ocean shore where photo luminescent bacteria seem to rival the starlight with their own glow.
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro modified
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L ll @70mm
iOptron Skytracker
Foreground:
4 x 30s @ ISO1600, stacked
Sky:
4 x 30s @ ISO1600, tracked, stacked
Prints available
St Anthony Head Lighthouse featuring the Milky Way, Lagoon Nebula, Trifid Nebula and a meteor.
This is a rework of a pic from a few months back, This edit is uncropped which i think is a slight improvement on the last.
Stack/Track/Blend
I tried a shot like this last year on Longships lighthouse and it didn’t quite go to plan but eventually found this little gem perfectly placed to give it another go, I think this one is a slight improvement on my last so feeling pleased. This was shot from St Mawes Castle car park so nice and easy just get out the van & shoot. :)
Equipment used;
Nikon D850
Samyang 135mm lens
Star Adventurer tracker
Capture Details;
Sky
10 x 40 seconds
ISO 2000
@f2
Foreground
25 x 6 seconds
ISO 10000
@f2
Lighthouse light
1 x 60 seconds
ISO 100
@f2
Edited in Photoshop
The core region of Milky Way rising behind the Toadstool.
While my lat post flic.kr/p/Eo2P1o showed a very wide panorama of the Toadstool, this as kind of the contrary.
When I am at a real dark sky location, I am always amazed how well the stars are visible along the horizon. While shooting nightscapes at the Toadstool, I stood in wonder when I noticed how dark the sky was in the direction of the rising Milky Way. I grabbed my 70-200mm lens and shot this image.
To make it clear: This is real and not a composite.The golden color on the horizon is the light of millions of stars rising behind the Toadstool, while the black areas are dark clouds of cosmic dust. Also visible to the right of the Hoodoo are the Lagoon Nabula (M8), Trifid Nemula (M20) and the bright starlike planet Saturn.
EXIF:
Canon EOS 6D astro modified
Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM @ 70mm
iOptron Skytracker
Foreground:
Single exposure 180s @ ISO1600
Low Level Lighting with 2 LED panels and 1 omindirectional light
Sky:
stack of 3 x 180s @ ISO1600
Thanks for all your faves and comments.
Prints available:
Since summer is around the corner, I reprocessed my M8 and M20 picture from last year.
The Lagoon (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20) are located in the Sagittarius region of the Milky Way. The Lagoon Nebula is also one of only two nebula that are visible with the Naked Eye. Both are emission nebula and are literal star factories, with their superheated gasses creating a beautiful glow. The Lagoon Nebula (left) is located approximately 5,200 light years away and the Trifid Nebula is about 9,000 light years away. Also pictured just above the Trifid nebula is M21 (NGC6531) or “Webs Cross”.
Shot on a ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
51X300s exposures for
4.1 total hours of integration time
TS Optics 90mm APO Telescope.
Skywatcher EQ6R mount.
Bortle 5 west of the DFW area.
4 panel mosaic
Taken throughout August 2017
Telescope: 11" Celestron EdgeHD+ Hyperstar(F/2)
Camera: QHY163M
Mount: Orion HDX-110
LRGB- 20x30 seconds each per panel
Ha-20x120 sec each per panel
5h 20m total
My latest attempt to photograph two of the bright nebulae in the evening sky in September. We were lucky and picked a night with perfect weather. With good seeing and no wind to shake the camera tripod the picture came out looking nice and sharp.
There's something about the combination of both pink and blue colors from a single nebula that I find really interesting. This is the Trifid Nebula (aka M20) located in the Sagittarius Constellation near the core of our Milky Way galaxy.
For years shooting with a dslr camera, I saw this nebula appear really small against the vast Milky Way core. Now that I'm using telescopes and I can capture the rgb colors independently, the results are very different. With about two hours of total capture time using iTelescope's T32 wide deep field telescope based at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, I shot 24 images (over 3 separate nights of shooting) before processing them with Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop.
Messier 20 The Trifid Nebula imaged from Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia.
510mm f/4.4 Planewave CDK, FLI-PL09000 camera
1 hour luminance, 10 minutes each R, G, B channel
The Trifid Nebula M20 is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. Its name means 'three-lobe'Canon 60D and SW Quattro 250 F4 . 27 X 30 sec shots stacked in DSS.
Trifid nebula M20, it derived it’s name from the tri-lobed nebula structure that excited by a triple star system in the center of the nebula. The ionised hydrogen gas cloud emits red light and called emission nebula while the adjacent nebula emits blue because it is a reflection nebula that reflects the light from the nearby stars. Between the two nebulae, there is a dark nebula called Bernard 85. Gear setup: Celestron edge HD8 @ f/7, ZWO 2600MC @0, iOptron GEM 45 guided by. Celestron OAG with ZWO 174MM, Optolong UHC 2”, Lights subs 50 x 180 sec, Flats 20, Darks 20, Bias 50. Total exposure 2 hours & 30 minutes. Captured from Bortle sky class 3.
First light with the ZWO ASI2600MC-P and I targeted the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula region of Sagittarius using the Williams Optics REDCAT. When looking in this region, you are looking into the center of the Milky Way, our galaxy. The Trifid Nebula (blue and red nebula) is near the top and is also known as Messier 20 (M20). The Lagoon Nebula is the largest nebula in this view and is also known as Messier 8 (M8). Several star clusters are also in view including Messier 21 (M21) to the upper left of the Trifid Nebula.
This was also the first test using the ProAstroGear Black-CAT Mount for autofocus on the Williams Optics Redcat using the ZWO EAF, worked like a charm.
Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ZWO ASI2600MC-P camera, Optolong L-eNhance 2" filter, 19 x 300 seconds at 0C with darks and flats, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini. Captured using ZWO AAP and processed using PixInsight. Autofocus using the ProAstroGear Black-CAT and ZWO EAF. Image date: July 30, 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).
Taken with the C14 and SBIG STXL-6303 from Cerritos College Observatory with LHaGB filters on 2024-07-14.
L: 20 30 s exposures
Ha: 19 180 s exposures
G: 20 60 s exposures
B: 21 60 s exposures
Frames captured with Maxim DL; calibration in AIP4Win; registration, stacking, channel combination and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in GIMP
This is a Bortle 9 site, so it is especially difficult getting the reflection nebula at the top. Narrowband filters are your friends in these conditions.
Neat summer target I've never imaged before because it is very low against my local horizon. The red portion is an emission nebula; the blue a reflection nebula; and the lobes are formed by a dark nebula -- all fueled by hot young stars.
Tech Stuff: Borg 71FL/ZWO ASI1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4 filter. 35 minutes of unguided 4 second exposures captured with SharpCap. Processed in PixInsight; Topaz Denoise AI; ACDSee Gemstone 12. From my yard in Yonkers, NY SQM-L 18.8 (Bortle 7).
The Trifid Nebula (Messier 20/NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. Its name means 'three-lobe'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (the relatively dense, reddish-pink portion), a reflection nebula (the mainly NNE blue portion), and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance, also designated Barnard 85). Viewed through a small telescope, the Trifid Nebula is a bright and peculiar object, and is thus a perennial favorite of amateur astronomers.
Equipment:
Explore Scientific ED80, ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO filters, Pixinsight, Photoshop
a wide field shot of the Milky Way Core, with Lagoon and Trifid Nebula's shining bright in the centre. Canon 5Dsr with 70 -200mm L . 25 x frames of 100 sec each stacked to give around 40 mins of exposure. Love the dark dust here amongst all the billions of stars.
Exposure: 121 minutes.
Designation: Messier 20, NGC 6514.
Constellation: Sagittarius.
Visual magnitude: +6.3
Apparent size: 29′ x 27′
Diameter: 44 light years.
Distance: 5,200 light years.
Altitude during exposure: 31°
Telescope: SkyWatcher ED120
Camera: ZWO ASI071
(2019-09-03)
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region located in Sagittarius. Its name means 'divided into three lobes'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars; an emission nebula (the red portion), a reflection nebula (the blue portion) and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' within the emission nebula that cause the trifurcated appearance; these are also designated Barnard 85).
The Trifid Nebula is a star-forming region in the Scutum spiral arm of the Milky Way.
3h1m total integration (R,G,B 10x300s, Lum 31x60s). Alcalalí, Spain 21-22/8/2017.
APM TMB 152 F8 LZOS, 10 Micron GM2000HPS, QSI6120wsg8
Messier 8 - Messier 20
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Messier 8 - The Lagoon Nebula (below)
RA: 271,039° Dec: -24,379°
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523) is a giant H II region in the constellation Sagittarius at 4,000-6,000 light years. The nebula contains several Bok globules (dark, collapsing clouds of protostellar material), the most prominent of which have been catalogued as B88, B89 and B296.
Messier 20 - "The Trifid Nebula" (above)
J2000 RA: 18h 02m 23s Dec: −23° 01′ 48″
NGC 6514, also known as The Trifid Nebula, is an HII region in Sagittarius discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764.
The object is a combination of an opened cluster of stars, emission nebula, reflection nebula and a dark nebula that divide into three lobes this object.
127ED f/9 + Canon EOS 4000D
Pollino National Park - Piano Visitone (1420m) SQM 21.7
2021+2022 data processed into Luminar 4-AI
To use this image please first read here: www.flickr.com/people/133259498@N05/
-#101 in Explore 13/09/2017 (verificato 14/09/2017 ore 08:00)
Le nebulose Laguna (M8) e Trifida (M20) sono forse tra le nebulose più osservate e fotografate. E poterle ammirare nello stesso FOV è veramente bello e spettacolare.
Le condizioni meteo di quella sera non sono state eccezionali: cielo non molto trasparente e seeing mediocre, e per questi motivi ho scelto oggetti DS luminosi.
Volevo realizzare un mosaico con 2 pannelli acquisiti con le stesse condizioni di cielo quindi ho potuto utilizzare solo le circa 5 ore di buio disponibili.
Un'integrazione di 1h e 40min e la temperatura del sensore 26°C non possono certo permettere elaborazioni estetiche esagerate, quindi ho fatto quello che ho potuto e penso di aver raggiunto un discreto risultato.
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-#101 on Explore 09/13/2017 (checked on 09.14.2017 8.00 am)
Laguna (M8) and Trifida (M20) nebulae are perhaps among the most observed and photographed nebulae. And seeing them in the same FOV is really beautiful and spectacular.
The weather conditions that night were not exceptional: sky not very transparent and seeing middling, and for these reasons I chose bright DS objects.
I wanted to make a mosaic with 2 panels scanned with the same sky conditions so I could only use the approximately 5 hours of astronomical night available.
Integration of 1h and 40min and 26 ° C sensor temperature can not allow exaggerated aesthetic elaborations, so I did what I could and I think I have achieved a decent result.
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Optic: Rifrattore APO Scopos TL805 80mm/f7 + WO 0.8X
Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) mod. Baader BCF
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 2 (scala Antoniadi inversa)
(M20) 20x300s 1600iso / 21 dark /21 flat / 21 bias
(M8) 20x300s 1600iso / 21 dark /21 flat / 21 bias
Date: 24/06/2017
Integration: 1h 40min +1h 40m
Temperature: 18°C (media)
Temperature sensor: 26°C (media)
Location: monti Nebrodi (Sicily-Italy) 1550m slm
Elaborazione DSS + PSCS3.
Lagoon Nebula region
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
TAIR-3S 300mm f/4.5 array + Canon EOS 4000D on Mount Synta EQ5 Frames (mosaic)
Locations: Piano Visitone - Pollino, Rotonda, Potenza, Italy.
The Trifid Nebula is an active star formation region in Saggitarius. It's trifurcated and features multiple objects of interest. The magenta areas are an emission nebula, the blue areas are reflection nebula, and the dark areas are dark nebula. And an open cluster lives within its gassy clouds. This is one telescopic target that has it all!
The data acquired for this new version of this image is a lot cleaner due to clearer skies and less tracking issues, resulting in more fine detail, and after a month of using PixInsight, my skills have improved drastically. And this is the result.
- TECH DATA -
Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Mount: Celestron CGX
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Autoguider: Orion Mini Guide Scope + SSAG
46 x 2 min exposures
Stack: Astro Pixel Processor
Process: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC 2019
Shot at the L&A County Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario, Canada.
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 Its name means 'three-lobe'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (a relatively dense, red-yellow portion), a reflection nebula (the mainly NNE blue portion), and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance also designated Barnard 85) Shot with Canon 60D on a SW Quattro 250 /f4 on a SW NEQ6 Pro. 7 x 30 sec frames and 5 x 55sec frames blended together in Sequator.
equipmnent: Sigma 28mmF1.4 DG HSM Art and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma 2Z-BL, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 6 times x 15 minutes, 4 x 4 min, 8 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.5
site: 2,430m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 South and long. 70 16 11 West near Cerro Armazones Chile
Atacama Desert just before Sunset July 2019
Astrofarm Tivoli Namibia (May 2018) - Canon EOS 1000Da, Canon EF 200 mm f/2.8L II, F/4, ISO-1600, 54x2 Min. on Astrotrac
Telescopio o obiettivo di acquisizione: TS Optics APO102 triplet fpl53
Camera di acquisizione: Canon 60Da
Montatura: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro
Telescopio o obiettivio di guida: Orion Short Tube 80/400
Camera di guida: Skywatcher Synguider 2
Riduttore di focale: TS Optics 0,79x Reducer 4-element
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto S.L. PixInsight V1.8
Date: 06 luglio 2016
Pose: 10x305" ISO800
Integrazione: 0.8 ore
Dark: ~19
Flat: ~23
Bias: ~51
The MilkyWay, Jupiter and Multiple Nebulae.
San Jose de Maipo, Chile.
Sony 35mm F4, iso800.
Captured the May 12, 2019
Autor: Mario Poblete
This may look like any other image of the Milky Way and it really is just that. The difference with this image is that it's made of 233 total images.
Last night while we were at Dead Horse Point and the sky was about as black as you can get, I had the opportunity to do something I have been wanting to do for a very long time.
This is a multi shot panorama/stitch that uses 23 various camera positions, 10 images in each position. Each of the 10 images were stacked for noise reduction and then each of the 23 stacked images were used to make the panorama/squareorama.
The detail in this image is extreme. With all my overlap, crop and adjust, this image will easily print 260x360 inches at optimum resolution.
I used a Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art lens with the following settings for each of the 233 images.
ISO 6400
F/2.2
8 second exposures.
We are on our last night of our workshops and I have a feeling we will go out with a bang. I have a little surprise for the group tonight.
I never get tired of imaging this section of the Milk Way in the constellation of Sagittarius – you can almost randomly select a section of this sky and your image will contain a cluster or nebula of some sort! This is the famous Trifid Nebula, Messier 20 (M20) as photographed on July 23, 2016. The word trifid comes from the Latin word trifidus which means “divided or split into three parts or lobes”. From Wikipedia - The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars; an emission nebula (the lower, red portion), a reflection nebula (the upper, blue portion) and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' within the emission nebula that cause the trifurcated appearance. The image is composed of 10 x 15 second images at ISO 3200 and 10 x 15 second images at ISO 4000. Tech Info: Meade LX90 12” telescope, Antares Focal Reducer, and Canon 6D camera.
Dati: 24 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 70 dark + 30 flat e darkflat
Filtro Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: 22 ° C - Umidità 45%